Dancing at Dusk - A Moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring
In March 2020, the world experienced a global response to the spread of the coronavirus. Events were canceled. Public life restricted. The rehearsals for The Rite of Spring came to a pause and rehearsal directors and dancers had to return to their homes. Before that, they rehearsed for the last time on the beach of Toubab Dialaw (Senegal). A documentary film team around filmmaker Florian Heinzen-Ziob was on site. The team spontaneously filmed the last rehearsal and captured a unique moment of self-empowerment and togetherness.
With
Rodolphe Allui, Sahadatou Ami Touré, Anique Ayiboe, D'Aquin Evrard Élisée Bekoin, Gloria Ugwarelojo Biachi, Luciene Cabral, Khadija Cisse, Sonia Zandile Constable, Rokhaya Coulibaly, Astou Diop, Serge Arthur Dodo, Estelle Foli, Aoufice Junior Gouri, Zadi Landry Kipre, Bazoumana Kouyaté, Babacar Mané, Vasco Pedro Mirine, Stéphanie Mwamba, Florent Nikiéma, Shelly Ohene-Nyako, Brian Otieno Oloo, Harivola Rakotondrasoa, Olivia Randrianasolo (Nanie), Asanda Ruda III, Tom Jules Samie, Amy Collé Seck, Pacôme Landry Seka, Gueassa Eva Sibi, Carmelita Siwa, Armel Gnago Sosso-Ny, Amadou Lamine Sow, Aziz Zoundi
Further company dancers: Korotimi Barro, Inas Dasylva, Franne Christie Dossou, Profit Lucky, Vuyo Mahashe, Didja Kady Tiemanta
Film production
Director and Editor: Florian Heinzen-Ziob
Cinematographer and Colour Correction: Enno Endlicher
Sound Recording and Sounddesign: Armin Badde
Production: Fontäne Film Produktion
2020 Restaging
Artistic Directors: Josephine Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Rehearsal Directors: Clémentine Deluy, Çağdaş Ermiş, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Barbara Kaufmann, Julie Shanahan, Kenji Takagi
Special thanks to:
Germaine Acogny, Ange Aoussou, Adam Carree, Gacirah Diagne, Salamatou Diene, Ghislaine Granger, Dan Harmer, Gertraud Johne, Laye Kane, Mariola Kopczynski, Simon Lambert, Petra Leidner, Gerald McDermott, Jeffrey Mitchell, Katie Thackeray, Helmut Vogt
The Rite of Spring
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Set and Costume Design: Rolf Borzik
Collaboration: Hans Pop
World Premiere 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Dancing at Dusk - A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring is produced by Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler's Wells
The double-bill The Rite of Spring • common ground[s] is a Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sabels and Sadler's Wells production,
co-produced with
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festspielhaus St. Pölten; Ludwigsburg Festival; Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid and Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Funded by
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds of the Goethe Instituts
Film production supported by
Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Kunststiftung NRW
"Le Sacre Du Printemps"
Performed by Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra
Courtesy of Sony Classical
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Music courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited
© Pina Bausch Foundation 2020
